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Alien (1979)

Alien (1979)
Rating: ★★★★★
May 2, 1999Alien Nasty on a Spaceship
One of the most influential films on this site, producing a host of sequels and making the careers of all involved. At heart, a simple monster on a spaceship film, it is made into a classic through Ridley Scott's relentless suspense and H.R. Giger's design work
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The Village (2004)

The Village (2004)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 5, 2004Pioneer Town/Mysterious Creatures in the Woods
M. Night Shyamalan creates three-quarters of a tense and eerie film about a 19th Century village under siege from mysterious creatures only for it to fall apart when he produces a damp squib of a twist ending
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Avatar (2009)

Avatar (2009)
Rating: ★★★★★
Dec 20, 2009War Between Human Colonists and Aliens
James Cameron’s film was a smash phenomenon. Cameron has relocated the plot of Dances With Wolves on another planet and uses motion capture to create one of the most dazzlingly realised alien worlds on film
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Red Lights (2012)

Red Lights (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 9, 2012Psychic Debunkers
Strong, well-written film from Buried director Rodrigo Cortes about investigators of psychic frauds encountering a possibly real example. This takes a welcomely sceptical, rationalist perspective, has a great cast and fine build-up but alas falls apart in a lame twist ending
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The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
May 13, 2012Meta-Fictional Horror Film
Joss Whedon scripted work that is less a horror film than a meta-horror film that is constantly deconstructing the genre and subverting its cliches. A rare genre entry less about visceral impact than it has brains to spare
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Chappie (2015)

Chappie (2015)
Rating: ★
Mar 7, 2015Artificial Intelligence/Robot Becomes Self-Aware
Neill Blomkamp's film about A.I. turns into Short Circuit dropped into the militarised future of RoboCop. Of all the rich possibilities in the idea, all we get is a goofy comedy with a pimped-out carjacking robot
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Finding Dory (2016)

Finding Dory (2016)
Rating: ★★★½
Jun 25, 2016Pixar Animation/Talking Fish
Pixar have never been the same since giving in to sequelitis but this sequel to Finding Nemo does recapturing some of their heyday. Not perfect but this has a winning array of new characters and some delightfully madcap comic set-pieces
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The Assignment (2016)

The Assignment (2016)
Rating: ★★
May 21, 2017Hitman Seeks Revenge After Enforced Gender Reassignment Surgery
From Walter Hill, one of the legendary action directors, comes what is either the most edgy or tasteless concepts for a revenge film – Michelle Rodriguez is a hitman who seeks revenge after having gender reassignment surgery forced on him
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 8, 2023War Between Human Colonists and Aliens
James Cameron finally delivers his sequel to Avatar. Nothing could quite repeat the same phenomenon a second time but this does well with Cameron taking the opportunity to show more depth to his alien world
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The Gorge (2025)

The Gorge (2025)
Rating: ★★★★
Feb 22, 2025The Guardtowers Above a Valley of Monsters
Scott Derrickson film with a captivatingly original premise - a sniper is assigned to a guardhouse overlooking a gorge filled with mysterious monsters and ends up in a forbidden relationship with his counterpart across the divide
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 4, 2026War Between Human Colonists and Aliens
James Cameron makes a third venture into the world of Pandora. The question is whether he finds any new territory to explore. What you cannot deny is that he creates a pretty and absorbing picture out of it all
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The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 1, 2026Star Wars Spinoff Film
A spinoff film from The Mandalorian tv series, this is the best film set in the Star Wars universe this side of the 2000s for the simple reason that it has invested in characters rather than slavish fanboy callbacks
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